Former IRS Employee Sentenced to Prison Time and Restitution for Filing False Tax Returns

By Betty Williams of Law Office of Williams & Associates, P.C. posted in IRS on Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

On March 5, 2018, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee, Pamela Pringle, was sentenced in the Eastern District of California for "making opportunities for persons to defraud the United States and for making and subscribing false returns." While employed by the IRS, Pringle prepared and filed income tax returns for other individuals that included false deductions, and in several years she also filed fraudulent tax returns for herself, claiming deductions to which she was not entitled. Pringle entered a guilty plea in November 2017 and will spend 5 months in prison, then 36 months under supervised release, including 5 months of home confinement; she was also ordered to pay $56,857 in restitution.

For more information, you can read the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's summary here.